Jesus appeared in a different form?

Afterward he appeared in a different form to two of his followers who were walking from Jerusalem into the country. (Mark 16:12)

According to Mark, Jesus changed his "FORM" when he met two of his disciples on their way to Emmaus?  This is very interesting, one would like to know in what "form" did Jesus change himself?

The verse carries on saying the two disciples did not recognise him. This tells us Jesus really did change his appearance, or else why wouldn’t his disciples recognise him. Changing form would include shape and size. Jesus may have changed himself to an old man or hunchback probably into a teenager?  Note the text does not say what type of form he changed into, so the possibilities are endless.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible commentary

He appeared in another form - In a form unlike his ordinary appearance so much so that they did not at first know him. 

form

μορφῇ (morphē)

Noun - Dative Feminine Singular

Strong's Greek 3444: Form, shape, outward appearance. Perhaps from the baseibnñ

Christians tells us who was the substitute on the Cross taking the place of Jesus. Yet the gospel narration is clear Jesus was able to change his form making him unrecognisable. What makes you say he didn’t change his “form” and someone else instead of him took his place? Luke tells us Jesus was praying alone in the garden of Gethsemane when an angel came and strengthened him. What makes you say Jesus did not change his appearance and a substitute was sent down? After all a 2^nd century gospels labelled apocrypha do say Jesus was watching his own crucifixion.

Here's a quote from  The Apocalypse of Peter :


The Savior said to me, "He whom you saw on the tree, glad and laughing, this is the living Jesus. But this one into whose hands and feet they drive the nails is his fleshly part, which is the substitute being put to shame, the one who came into being in his likeness. But look at him and me." 
And I saw someone about to approach us resembling him, even him who was laughing on the tree. (The Apocalypse of Peter 81)

Here's a quote from the Acts of John :


And my Lord standing in the midst of the cave and enlightening it, said: John, unto the multitude below in Jerusalem I am being crucified and pierced with lances and reeds, and gall and vinegar is given me to drink. But unto thee I speak and what I speak hear thou. I put it into thy mind to come up into this mountain, that thou mightest hear those things which it behoveth a disciple to learn from his teacher and a man from his God… (Jesus Continues): But this is not the cross of wood which thou wilt see when thou goest down hence:
neither am I he that is on the cross, whom now thou seest not, Thou hearest that I suffered, yet did I not suffer; that I suffered not, yet did I suffer; that I was pierced, yet I was not smitten; hanged, and I was not hanged; that blood flowed from me, and it flowed not; and, in a word, what they say of me, that befell me not, but what they say not, that did I suffer. (the Acts of John 97)

This was also the case with Mary Magdalene of the New Testament. Mary Magdalene saw Jesus but did not recognise him, until he made it spoke to her?

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

¹¹ Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb ¹² and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

¹³ They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”

“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” ¹⁴ At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

Notice in verse 14 Mary Magdalene turned around and saw Jesus, but did not recognise him? What about the transfiguration. According to the gospels Jesus “transformed” μετεμορφώθη (metemorphōthē) i.e. his face changed. Note transfigure means to change the appearance of a person or thing very much.

We can conclude, Jesus changing his appearance and escaping crucifixion is not such an absurd claim after all. Christians must now tells us, what form did Jesus change himself into that none of his followers were able to recognise him? This is also the case when Jesus was taken up the hill by the crowd to be thrown off, but he escaped unnoticed.

All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way. (Luke 4:28-30)

Notice how the people drove Jesus out the town, took him “brow” (edge) of the hill to throw him down and “JESUS WALKED RIGHT THROUGH THEM”

Wait a tick!

JESUS WALKED RIGHT THROUGH THEM AND THEY DID NOT NOTICE? What exactly happened to them, that they didn’t notice the man they “TOOK UP THE HILL TO KILL WALK RIGHT THROUGH THEM?”

If Jesus can walk through a crowd of People who tried to kill him, what makes you think he couldn’t escape the Jews and Romans who tried to crucify him?

Think about it, those people who took him up the hill must have been “bedazzled” thinking they got Jesus in their hands and about to kill him, yet miraculously he escapes a crowd of people!

So, when we say Jesus was not crucified, we have good reason to believe he escaped such an episode leaving people think they got him. Such people who plan evil plots are themselves deceived to believe a lie says the bible.

Lost people will be fooled by his evil deeds. They could be saved, but they will refuse to love the truth and accept it. For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie, (2 Thessalonians 2:10-11)

Here God send a “Powerful Delusion” to make people believe in a lie this includes the crucifixion.  


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If Saul was able to change into another man, what makes you say Jesus wasn't able to change?

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Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. ( 1Samuel 10:6)

And becomes another person in body and soul:  (Rabbi Malbim  commentary)

Shalt be turned into another man - This is a remarkable expression, and occurs nowhere else (Barnes' Notes on the Bible commentary)


I can even give you that! Jesus is PORTRAYED as crucified! (Galatians 3:1)